Researchers can manage their cloud resources and monitor their usage through the CloudBank user portal.
CloudBank offers classroom tools, training workshops and videos, curated training materials, and individual support to help researchers get started.
Funds that go through CloudBank are free of indirect costs, maximizing the value of NSF awards.
Resources are available to help prepare supplementary proposal documents and estimate costs.
Cloud accounts are provisioned quickly, allow log in to cloud consoles with familiar credentials, and share access with collaborators.
Researchers can explore and access multiple clouds to find the right services with CloudBank's pay by use charge model.
Spending is monitored across multiple clouds and triggers automated email balance alerts. Cost optimization recommendations detect unused or underutilized resources.
CloudBank training videos and curated cloud training materials help researchers get started with cloud services.
Instructor resources describe how to run classes efficiently in the cloud.
A support team is available to help get started and troubleshoot issues.
Researchers can request CloudBank when preparing proposals for "CloudAccess" enabled NSF solicitations and for small amounts of time for purposes such as hosting community datasets by submitting a CloudBank community request.
